User:Donald Trung/WikiProject Books (Concept)
This is the concept page for Commons:WikiProject Books, I will be expanding this gradually but as I don't have that much free time won't be doing this quickly. 
Published/Launched. --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 08:56, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
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WikiProject Books is a collaborative effort to help import and organise books on Wikimedia Commons and work with librarians and institutions outside of project to help preserve historical books and documents in the public domain.
New to Commons?
[edit]There are a number of excellent training materials to help you upload your files. Use the 'Upload file' button, just below the Wikimedia Commons icon. That will allow you to use the Upload Wizard. For further help on using this tool, see: Commons:Upload Wizard FAQ or take a look at a few videos here.
Online sources to import from
[edit]Below is a list of online resources where there are many files of books that are in the public domain which can be downloaded from books.google.com, box.com, Etc. These are generally in the public domain but their copyright status and educational value needs to be individually assessed prior to uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.
Taskforces
[edit]Specialised taskforces for members to focus on a certain aspect of WikiProject Books and concern themselves with that area. There are taskforces for categorisation, importing books, and contacting possible sources of public domain books for donation. Someone can join a taskforce without being a member of the larger WikiProject.
Members
[edit]- If you would like to join the project, simply add your name to the list of members.
Members of the (proposed) WikiProject Books:
- --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 18:06, 13 June 2018 (UTC), founding member.
Userboxes
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This userbox could help raise awareness of the project, and members may add {{User WPBooks}} to their user page if they so wish. Adding this userbox will automatically add you to Category:WikiProject Books members.
Uploads to patrol
[edit]Below here is not a part of "the main concept"
[edit]More concepts
[edit](Feedback welcome)
- Maybe this WikiProject might work best if it were a respiratory of links 🔗 for sources to upload from and have a list of newly uploaded .pdf and .djvu files 📁 to be monitored and correctly categorised.
- Of course starting partnerships with other websites like Google and the Internet Archive would probably be more important than "direct uploading" itself as these businesses tend to generate "for themselves" even if they have the public in mind, so by "dual-uploading" it they would get "free advertisement" at Wikimedia Commons while their books will be available from this platform also.
- Another (early) concept is simply using this WikiProject to raise awareness of the possibilities of uploading books and other .pdf- and .djvu-based works to Wikimedia Commons. 🤔
- Spin-off project User:Donald Trung/The FORVM Library of Ancient Coinage PD-books import list. Created.